Word: friendless
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...Alone, friendless and frightened, the old lady would not listen to reason. Only an operation could save her, the doctor had said, but she wanted no operation. Let her die. No, there was no family to call-no one at all, except "the Alliance." Willing to try anything, the doctor called the Educational Alliance on Jefferson Street in Manhattan's lower East Side...
Turkey emerged from World War II lonely and friendless. It had played the hard-to-get neutral, declaring war on Nazi Germany only at the last moment, in February 1945, in time to qualify for U.N. membership. It was cut off from the Balkans and the Arab world too, and isolated from Islam. No one loved the Turks. The Turks loved no one. Then the Moskofs (as the Turks call the Russians) started growling. Turkey's stout defiance of Soviet demands for joint control of the Dardanelles taught the U.S. and the Western world, in 1946 still under...
...notion that the typical alcoholic is an elderly bum or a friendless misfit dates from the days when drunks were observed mostly in police courts and state hospitals. Dr. Robert Straus and Dr. Selden D. Bacon, sociologists at the Yale Center of Alcoholic Studies, decided to get some up-to-date information by sifting through the case histories of 2,023 alcoholics treated at the Yale Plan Clinic and others like it. Their findings: the average clinic patient is 41, married and living with his family, has held a job involving skill or responsibility for three years or more...
...friendless, but he was manifestly apart from his friends, a lonely figure with bright eyes and ceaseless tongue, going for walks. The handwriting was still firm and bold and beautifully formed on the famous postcards; the soft and beautiful voice was still firm and ready when he spoke on the telephone. His mind was still large and showed only the normal sense of persecution felt by those in contemporary England who have been relieved of so much of their property by the State. With the shrewdness of an afflicted banker he protested against the threat of capital levy. Like Samuel...
Furthermore, "selection of the Negro group for this treatment is arbitrary." It is not used against Jews, Mexicans, Poles or other groups, but is "selectively used against the poor and friendless [Negroes]. Ralph Bunche ... is not usually labeled." (But when Bunche won the Nobel Prize a fortnight ago, the Trib noted the newsworthy fact that he is a Negro as did other U.S. newspapers and wire services...